The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-30

Under the Mexican pension bill six and three
| fourths millions are estimated 10 be annually
necessary in tho way OF appropriation. But
| there Is n wonderful difference in the locality
north Of Mason & Dixon line whore tho money
will DO expended under the other bill moro
| than three fourths OF IL will lie expended south
OF that line. These two bills ran side by side
4 through the House In their passage one was
| supposed to be dep sndent upon tho other The
North paid the price of putting three men south
/ of Mason and DiXons line on the pension roll
under the Mexican pension bill for each one
| that 10 sacured tho North. OF the men who
| have been engaged IN the Indian wars previous
4 10 the war OF the re 'llion, more than nine
| tenths of them came from the slave states
| Sixty thousand men were engaged IN THESE
wars, the var GUS Indian wars, lrior To the MeN-
| lean war. All of them, save 600 that partici-
pated in the Blackhawk war, were soldiers in
the SO called wars that w re carried on IN the
| Southern States the Florida war, the Creek ana
| Seminole wars. Sixty-nine thousand OF that
class OF volunteers are covered by the MEXICAN
| pension law. -
OF lOl 600 volunteers in the Mexican war a little
more than two-thirds came from the southern
States il was Southern war. IL was for the
| propagation of the institution OF slavery IL was
to add new slave States TO the union OF states ;
il was i'm their interest; IL was carried ON by n
Democratic and Southern administration. Tho
men who clamorod for regiments where favors
were TO be distributed were selected largely
from the South so that moro than two-thirdS OF
ali tho volunteers in that war were selected nom
those States. Here you see $4,000, snpposing
them all to be living. are benefciaries under the
Mexican pension BILL while b. 90 men only are
possibly beneficiaries, supposing them all 10 be
living, under the same bill in the North But
that bill, although the two measures ran side by
side secured the necessary approval that made
IL law, and after IL was approved the other
failed. Some of my friends in my own neighbor-
hood have spoken very kindly OF the few words
/ was able to say with regard to the veto OF that
measure. have here in my hand letter which
l received few days ago, that gave me no in
considerable satisfaction.
Nnnr / II 4
dated Headquarters II. III. Brown Post No. 49,
g. r.. Fond du Lac, Wis" Fond du Lac -
the home OF Gen. Bragg; the man VINO charac-
teriZed my old comrades, who might be bene-
ficiares under the bill, rs "yagabonds, thieves,
scoundrels periurers, and the scum Of the
EARTH The letter reads
Hon. Mr. Hepburn, NJ c. Washington, ID. c.:
SR-Your remarks 20 General T. s. Bragg as
| to his position in the q. A. r., comparing him
| To Benedict Arnold, meets with the hearty ap-
prevail OF this post, of which General Il. 5 Bragg
| is a member. We thank you and all others in
Congress who took so prominent part in vim
| comrades and their widows and orphans. Yours
respectfully, GEORGE d. STANTON.
Adjutant OF the Post.
Accompanying that was n series of resolutions
passed by the post, too long to weary you with
| ut this time. L would have been glad If that
gentleman who spoke so feelingly with regard
| to his love of the true soldier, could have re-
ceived a letter indicating the opinions OF his old
comrades before he delivered his speech in OPP
|
| from mistake. There are men bore who know
that that gentleman was gallant officer. He was
| commander OF that rigade known III the Army OF
| the Potomac as the "Iron Brigade" There was
| none better. He succeeded t. its command late
| in the war; it had won worldwide reputation
| then. No mum leading Roman legion in the
| days when Rome was most powerful, or a
| French division in those days seventy-iVe or
eighty years ago. when France won her highest
| renown as warlke nation, ever felt or had a
right TO feel more confidence in the men who
| Dll nnn1 han fhA al
| Brigade. / heard that gentlemen say in the
| midst of his scathing denunclation Of his old
| comrades that he was n friend Of tho soldier
| that no man could feel the thrill OF de-
| light that came TO the soldiers heart
MS he rode along waving line, who heard the
acclaims of the comrades when they felt that
| confidence that comes with II trusted leader,
| no man who had ever led them up the heights
OF II desperate assault, could ever forget his old
| comrades All, who is ii that makes the re-
nown of the General?
| Suppose that when he dashed along the lines
| he had not been met by the huzzas that came
from brave hearts that when ho led the assault
he had not been followed by the bayonets that
| We're held by well-nerved. hands? What would
have become of the leaders renown, and where
would have been the stars OF rank? l thought
| when / heard him say that, that he ought T.
have felt that sentiment of mutually and re-
| ciprocity that should exist between the soldiol
who made his General and the General that was
created by the ranks. Applause.l There was
| another picture; there were some of those old
men that once cheered when the commanding
officer came there were some OF those men
! whose ewes light mp with the fires of courage
when they knew the deadly assault was to bC
made; there were the men who with firm hand
| held the bayonet as they rushed onward, eX
posing their bare breasts TO the torrent of shot
and she'll that came hurting like winter
storm against them. These old men now in the
oor-houses, eyes dimmed by want stalwar
| hands no longer stalwart because of the ravage
| of disease and old age, holding out those gaun
| hands pleadngly toward the man whose re
nown they created, and begging him. in thu
| Goo, .,,s. ~ old NOV in hpi
great distress. Enthusiastic applause anC
| cheers. There were two pictures that should
engage the attention of the artst-one showing
how well the boys performed their part, thu
other showing how easy il 10 DO recrean
when profit and possible honor preferment,
would say-dictated n change of front.